Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 77 57
Rank change year-on-year -43 -20 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,315 1,503 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 3.65% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.92% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 874 1,037 2,779
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,236 38,342 77,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.83% 93.07% 86.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37,103 22,499 57,686
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 1,200 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +10 660 £87,500 - 226
Work from Home -24 586 £70,000 -2.77% 349
UK excluding London -107 551 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -44 246 £66,250 -7.97% 130
North West -43 115 £67,500 -3.57% 76
South East -117 106 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -51 95 £69,653 -3.25% 31
South West -71 64 £65,000 -7.48% 35
Midlands -53 60 £67,500 +3.85% 36
East of England -27 38 £63,750 +10.87% 20
North East +4 36 £62,500 +19.05% 28
West Midlands -24 34 £70,000 - 21
Scotland -86 29 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -55 25 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Wales -26 7 £55,200 +8.24% 13
Northern Ireland -35 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.44%) Apache
3 18 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 16 (1.22%) Confluence
6 14 (1.06%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.99%) JBoss
8 11 (0.84%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.76%) IIS
10 9 (0.68%) CMS
11 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.38%) Appian
12 4 (0.30%) Camunda
12 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) Liferay
13 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.076%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.76%) Maya
2 10 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.38%) Endur
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Actimize
6 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.076%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.076%) Quorum
6 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.076%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 729 (55.44%) AWS
2 573 (43.57%) Azure
3 304 (23.12%) GCP
4 228 (17.34%) Serverless
5 171 (13.00%) SaaS
6 116 (8.82%) GitHub
7 107 (8.14%) Amazon S3
8 104 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
9 95 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
11 71 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 67 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
13 62 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
14 49 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (3.50%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.35%) PaaS
18 39 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (2.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.88%) Broadband
2 10 (0.76%) HTTP
3 8 (0.61%) AMQP
4 7 (0.53%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) DHCP
6 5 (0.38%) DNS
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.076%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (13.84%) NoSQL
2 171 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
3 122 (9.28%) MongoDB
4 116 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 75 (5.70%) MySQL
6 63 (4.79%) DynamoDB
7 62 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.97%) Redis
10 31 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (2.28%) BigQuery
12 29 (2.21%) Big Data
13 27 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.67%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.22%) Power BI
16 13 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (0.99%) DB2
16 13 (0.99%) Pinecone
17 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 169 (12.85%) Git
2 117 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 81 (6.16%) GitLab
4 54 (4.11%) TeamCity
5 42 (3.19%) JIRA
6 38 (2.89%) JUnit
7 37 (2.81%) Cucumber
8 30 (2.28%) Cypress.io
8 30 (2.28%) Selenium
9 29 (2.21%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.60%) Mockito
11 19 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.44%) Maven
12 11 (0.84%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.84%) JMeter
12 11 (0.84%) Vite
13 10 (0.76%) Postman
14 9 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 395 (30.04%) Finance
2 361 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 163 (12.40%) Banking
4 106 (8.06%) Law
5 92 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 75 (5.70%) Retail
8 69 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.41%) Financial Institution
10 52 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.35%) Back Office
12 21 (1.60%) Games
12 21 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.44%) Billing
13 19 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.29%) Advertising
14 17 (1.29%) Legal
15 14 (1.06%) Marketing
16 12 (0.91%) Front Office
17 11 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 456 (34.68%) Developer
2 349 (26.54%) Senior
3 268 (20.38%) Software Engineer
4 203 (15.44%) Architect
5 162 (12.32%) Lead
6 121 (9.20%) Full-Stack Developer
7 119 (9.05%) Senior Developer
8 107 (8.14%) Java Developer
9 96 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
10 94 (7.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 82 (6.24%) Java Engineer
12 75 (5.70%) .NET Developer
13 62 (4.71%) Software Developer
14 50 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
16 44 (3.35%) Lead Developer
17 41 (3.12%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (3.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 37 (2.81%) C# Developer
19 37 (2.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (23.04%) .NET
2 297 (22.59%) React
3 264 (20.08%) RESTful
4 219 (16.65%) Spring
5 208 (15.82%) REST
6 195 (14.83%) Node.js
7 192 (14.60%) Spring Boot
8 173 (13.16%) Kafka
9 111 (8.44%) AngularJS
10 98 (7.45%) .NET Core
11 91 (6.92%) gRPC
12 77 (5.86%) HTML
13 69 (5.25%) .NET Framework
14 66 (5.02%) CSS
15 61 (4.64%) ASP.NET
16 60 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
17 53 (4.03%) Django
17 53 (4.03%) Middleware
18 51 (3.88%) Vue
19 46 (3.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 382 (29.05%) Cloud Native
2 226 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (8.06%) Product Ownership
4 100 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.42%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.42%) Video\Live Streaming
8 38 (2.89%) Data Structures
9 34 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.90%) Blockchain
12 23 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
12 23 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.67%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.60%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.29%) IoT
16 16 (1.22%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
17 15 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.33%) Linux
2 23 (1.75%) Windows
3 16 (1.22%) Android
4 7 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (48.75%) CI/CD
2 540 (41.06%) Agile
3 511 (38.86%) DevOps
4 508 (38.63%) Software Engineering
5 378 (28.75%) Containerisation
6 319 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 292 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
8 272 (20.68%) Mentoring
9 260 (19.77%) Event-Driven
10 246 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 242 (18.40%) Test Automation
12 232 (17.64%) AI
13 203 (15.44%) Computer Science
14 184 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 158 (12.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 156 (11.86%) Scrum
17 155 (11.79%) Clean Code
18 152 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
19 148 (11.25%) TDD
20 147 (11.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 429 (32.62%) Java
2 357 (27.15%) Python
3 277 (21.06%) SQL
4 261 (19.85%) JavaScript
5 250 (19.01%) C#
6 212 (16.12%) TypeScript
7 121 (9.20%) Go
8 51 (3.88%) Scala
9 40 (3.04%) PHP
10 35 (2.66%) C++
11 34 (2.59%) Bash
12 32 (2.43%) C
13 27 (2.05%) Ruby
14 22 (1.67%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.60%) PL/SQL
16 16 (1.22%) Shell Script
17 15 (1.14%) PowerShell
18 13 (0.99%) Rust
19 8 (0.61%) Bicep
20 6 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 200 (15.21%) Degree
2 129 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.14%) Security Cleared
4 73 (5.55%) SC Cleared
5 59 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.12%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.06%) CISSP
13 9 (0.68%) CISM
14 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.38%) GIAC
17 5 (0.38%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.63%) QA
2 30 (2.28%) GDPR
3 28 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 26 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.91%) NIST
8 10 (0.76%) NCSC
9 6 (0.46%) GRC
10 4 (0.30%) EMIR
10 4 (0.30%) IFRS
10 4 (0.30%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 409 (31.10%) Docker
2 13 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 403 (30.65%) Kubernetes
2 224 (17.03%) Terraform
3 87 (6.62%) Grafana
4 67 (5.10%) Ansible
5 37 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.67%) Kibana
7 14 (1.06%) Argo
8 9 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.46%) Puppet
10 4 (0.30%) Cilium
10 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 3 (0.23%) Nagios
11 3 (0.23%) Rancher
12 2 (0.15%) MIIS
12 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 125 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.33%) Google
3 50 (3.80%) Oracle
4 45 (3.42%) Typelevel
5 17 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.22%) SAP
7 14 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (0.84%) IBM
9 11 (0.84%) Software AG
9 11 (0.84%) Splunk
10 10 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
10 10 (0.76%) Cisco
10 10 (0.76%) Databricks
10 10 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.53%) Guidewire